This post from P2P is certainly very true.
No one can be "shut up", in the new era, at least not effectively. Stories get out. And the example of Andrew Cohen is a good one, detailing What Is Enlightenment's primary role in getting the world out at A.C.'s abuses.
It's also incredibly humorous, to see Andrew Cohen attempt to "embrace" blogs. Here is a blog of his on Integrity.
He declares his allegiance to "authenticity, transparency, and integrity", pretty early on, using this new blogform.
Why is that humorous?
Well, because if you attempt to leave a comment - which I did - it doesn't post, but gets caught, and "reviewed". The reasons why a comment wouldn't get posted are many - you can read the subtext - the comment I left was mildly oppositional, slightly mocking, certainly nothing that supposedly wouldn't get by the filter.
But it wasn't posted, of course.
So much for transparency! I've heard from others, and they have had the same experience.
As well, the post is full of abstractions, strawmen, and defensiveness, when speaking about his "controversial path".
Also, he mentions why he hasn't spoken of his detractors before:
The motives of my detractors appeared so transparent that I thought
they would be obvious to others, and I naively concluded that there was
no point in responding. Besides, it just felt beneath my dignity to do
so. I was wrong. I have now, obviously belatedly, come to understand
that my lack of response is being considered by some as an admission of
guilt or wrongdoing, or even worse, as a lack of integrity in itself.
This chilled me, especially, when considering the following story from What Enlightenment blog, about a british 70 year old female follower:
The following day, on Sunday 12 December 1999, her phone rang once more
and it was again Steve Brett on the other end of the line. Clearly
dissatisfied that in the previous phone call Caroline had not "cracked"
under his pressure and "admitted her sin," Steve Brett went on to
deliver a renewed but far more devastating attack on Caroline. Caroline
said later that the conversation lasted for about forty five minutes
and that during it Brett repeatedly insulted her with a ferocity that
left her completely traumatized. Caroline said that she had to keep the
phone handset away from her ear on many occasions as Brett was
literally shouting at her from the other side. She was told that she
was going to “die a miserable old woman” and how awful it was on her
part that she had dared to leave the venue without waiting to see
Cohen. Without any consideration whatsoever for her physical and
spiritual frailty, Brett again and again furiously scolded Caroline for
her apparent egotistical and independent ways that completely
infuriated her teacher. Caroline was told that, instead of surrendering
her soul to Andrew Cohen now that she was coming close to dying, she
was still holding on to her small life and her ego and would die as
such. Caroline also spoke about her intuitive feeling that Cohen was in
the room with Brett, listening to the latter delivering his attack.
Caroline died 11 days after this conversation with Brett - (and the suppositions is, (no proof, I will say) that this was at Cohen's direction), and the case is made that it was mainly due to the severe effect of the "talking to". I'm sure that isn't all, as bodies go when they go, especially 79 year old bodies - but wow, what a great last gift to a dying woman, huh?
Whether the story is true or not - the story certainly doesn't seem something "beneath Andrew's dignity", to speak about, or clear up. It seems exactly opposite that.
And, of course, that is just ONE story, out of many, from many, MANY different sources.
So, let's continue to use these peer-to-peer tools to expose the corruption, in the communities we belong to. Just remember, it's like weed-whacking. Something you have to do again and again.
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